Jesse Owens and Hitler are featured in week's new home videos

Journeyman director Stephen Hopkins doesn't try to pep up the bland biopic formula with his Jesse Owens drama "Race," but he does deliver a reasonably stirring version of a story that bears retelling. Stephan James gives an engaging performance as Owens, who overcomes prejudice and intense national pressure to compete and win at the 1936 Olympic Games. The movie leans heavily on a simplistic heroes-and-villains narrative, but that's hard to fault too much when the main bad guy is, y'know, Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, "Race" is broad but effective, reminding viewers of an important moment in the history of American sports and patriotism -- which was also one more step down the long, seemingly unending road toward eliminating bigotry. Cult animator Bill Plympton has made one of his oddest and most entertaining feature films with the mockumentary "Hitler's Folly," which uses some of the Nazi leader's real artwork and early biographical details to imagine an alternate history where Hitler aimed to be a rival to Walt Disney as well as a genocidal dictator. While Hitler steers the Reich's resources into making one unwieldy epic, Disney responds by putting all of his studio's visionary technicians to work on the American war effort, employing animatronic robots to fool the enemy.